News Scan

Study: Oakland Cops Are Racists: The scholars at Stanford have proven what the media, Black Lives Matter and Eric Holder have known all along, the police are racists. Heather MacDonald has this piece in the City Journal about the study performed by psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists which suggests that Oakland police treat black drivers less
respectfully than white ones. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was well received by journalists at The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Science. Lead researcher Jennifer Eberhardt, is a Stanford psychology professor, who
specializes in implicit bias, the idea that nearly everyone approaches
allegedly disfavored groups with unconscious prejudice.

7th Circuit Overturns Death Sentence: The death sentence of a triple-murderer was overturned Friday in a ruling from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathan Stempel of Reuters reports that the court found that the "stun belt" worn by the defendant, to help control him, contaminated the penalty phase and likely prejudiced the jury. While the belt was not visible to jurors, a box on the belt containing wiring, while hidden under murderer John Stephenson's shirt, caused a visible bulge. Stephenson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1996 murders of two men and a woman who were in a pickup truck. A witness testified that Stephenson had fired multiple rounds into the truck with his assault rifle, then stabbed the three victims with a knife. The state has not indicated whether it will seek the death penalty at Stephenson's new sentencing hearing.

-->"Black women are not Jesus. It’s not right to expect us to fix whatwhite Americans are so committed to breaking."

-->"A group of black women wrote an open letter to DNC Chairman
Tom Perez requesting that he meet with black women politicians ..
The DNC refused to even give black women an official response
to the letter."

-->"I say this, because I want to be clear that the DNC is no friend
to black women."